Book Review: Business Model Generation
Business Model Generation really exceeded my expectations on so many levels. The Use Of Our Socially Networked Society The book had 470 contributors in 45 countries. While there were 9 core contributors on the book they had influence from all over the planet. Traditional Publishing Not Needed When you look at how beautifully this book is put together, you can’t believe that it didn’t come about through a typical publishing channel. This book was financed and put out independently. The Content is So Relevant For Business Owners Beyond the fact that this book is one of the most stylishly laid out books that I have ever seen. The content is
Book Review: Rework
The real world isn’t a place, it’s an excuse. It’s a justification for not trying. It has nothing to do with you. The above quote really resonates as when you are thinking about taking the leap into business the “real world” myth always pops into a new business owners head. That’s what you can expect from the book Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. This book is chalk full of business advice that is relevant to today’s business owner and the shift that is occurring with how we do business. As the book illustrates, there is a growing number of people who are doing work and creating value
Book Review: Invaluable
The uncertain economy has caused a lot of people to question previously held paradigms of what job security really is. We are learning at a rapid rate that it is up to us to create our own job security. We can do this through starting a business or as Dave Crenshaw puts it in his new book, we figure out what it takes to become Invaluable. The book centers around a particular character, Jason, that we can all relate to. He’s young, has high expectations for his career and becomes disillusioned with his initial career path. Not only is he disillusioned, he begins to take on the dreaded victim’s mentality
Book Review- Switch: How To Change Things When Change Is Hard
Chip and Dan Heath gives some compelling insight to change. The book, Switch, starts by talking about 3 surprises about change. The most powerful insight here is that often with change what looks like a people problem is often a situational problem. When I work with business owners and we talk about what’s going on in their business, the conversation always turns to employees. More specifically, how bad their employees are. What Switch shows is that many of our problems with other people have to do with the process and environment other the people themselves. This is true whether we are talking about employees or our kids. The entire book
Book Review: Fake Work
Fake Work is defined as work that is not targeted or aligned with the strategies and goals of the company. Looking at the landscape of work today, you see companies making cut backs on personnel and resources which then transfers additional responsibility to the people in organization who still have a job. In this type of an environment, it becomes even more critical to spend your time working in alignment with what makes your company successful. Americans are working longer and are busier than ever, unfortunately this has not actually translated into productivity. Consider this quote from page 11 of the book: An average worker today needs to work a
Book Review: The 5 Laws The Determine All of Life’s Outcomes
I have had the opportunity to spend time with the author of the 5 Laws, Brett Harward, on a few different occasions. What struck me as odd is that I had heard from other people how good his book was but hadn’t taken the time to read it. I decided to change that about a month ago and I am glad that I did. In terms of a “self help” type of book, Brett gives a lot of practical advice that I think readers will find refreshing. The premise of the book is that there are five areas that contribute to your success. Those areas are: Vision, Frequency, Perception, Accountability
Book Review: Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath
I am personally fascinated and passionate about understanding what makes me, and other people, tick. Strengths Finder is another great tool to help you understand how you operate and what that may look like in your life. One of the things that trip us up in life is that we think we are born to do a certain role. We aren’t born to be an accountant, we aren’t born to be athletes and we aren’t born to be doctors. These are roles that allow us to express ourselves at the core of our being. The thing that we miss in all this? Understanding what’s at the core of our being.
Book review: Talent Is Overrated by Geoff Colvin
Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Finished this book last week. As someone who enjoys learning about what makes humans tick, I thought this book offered a fresh perspective of what you need to be successful. Hint: It’s not inherent talent. So what does it take to be successful? It takes identifying what you like to do and then putting in deliberate practice every single day. He gives a ton of great examples of people who have demonstrated this. Geoff Colvin’s research flies straight in the face of the long argued logic that we achieve things
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